Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Foreign Exchange Rates -- G.5 Monthly

(Rates in currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted)

The table below shows the average rates of exchange in MAY 2017 together
with comparable figures for other months. Averages are based on daily noon buying
rates for cable transfers in New York City certified for customs purposes by
the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

COUNTRY

CURRENCY

May 2017

April 2017

March 2017

May 2016

*AUSTRALIA

DOLLAR

0.7437

0.7534

0.7622

0.7318

BRAZIL

REAL

3.2043

3.1390

3.1275

3.5403

CANADA

DOLLAR

1.3606

1.3437

1.3387

1.2945

CHINA, P.R.

YUAN

6.8843

6.8876

6.8940

6.5259

DENMARK

KRONE

6.7338

6.9422

6.9553

6.5762

*EMU MEMBERS

EURO

1.1050

1.0714

1.0691

1.1312

HONG KONG

DOLLAR

7.7864

7.7737

7.7658

7.7635

INDIA

RUPEE

64.4195

64.5360

65.8009

66.8895

JAPAN

YEN

112.2436

110.0910

112.9165

108.8481

MALAYSIA

RINGGIT

4.3164

4.4030

4.4358

4.0375

MEXICO

PESO

18.7666

18.7672

19.2800

18.1360

*NEW ZEALAND

DOLLAR

0.6946

0.6969

0.7006

0.6807

NORWAY

KRONE

8.5059

8.5855

8.5063

8.2269

SINGAPORE

DOLLAR

1.3951

1.3983

1.4049

1.3695

SOUTH AFRICA

RAND

13.2640

13.4508

12.9203

15.3257

SOUTH KOREA

WON

1125.1359

1134.1755

1133.8617

1173.7905

SRI LANKA

RUPEE

152.3909

151.8620

151.5048

145.9081

SWEDEN

KRONA

8.7826

8.9616

8.9147

8.2154

SWITZERLAND

FRANC

0.9867

1.0009

1.0015

0.9777

TAIWAN

DOLLAR

30.1282

30.3585

30.6487

32.5390

THAILAND

BAHT

34.4573

34.4495

34.8752

35.4076

*UNITED KINGDOM

POUND

1.2929

1.2639

1.2347

1.4524

VENEZUELA

BOLIVAR

9.9750

9.9750

9.9750

9.9750

Memo:

UNITED STATES

DOLLAR

1) BROAD

JAN97=100

123.8299

124.3486

125.2587

120.6839

2) MAJOR CURRENCY

MAR73=100

93.1701

94.0015

94.4902

89.6563

3) OITP

JAN97=100

156.4447

156.5471

157.9412

153.9248

This release is available online at http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/G5.
For more information on exchange rate indexes for the U.S. dollar, see "Indexes of the Foreign Exchange Value of the Dollar," Federal Reserve Bulletin, 91:1 (Winter 2005), pp. 1-8, (http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/bulletin/2005/winter05_index.pdf). Weights for the broad index can be found at http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/H10/Weights; weights for the major currencies index and the other important trading partners (OITP) index are derived from the broad index weights. The most recent annual revision to the trade weights and the dollar indexes took effect with the May 2009 release of this report. The source for exchange rates not listed in the table above but used in the calculation of the broad and OITP indexes is Bloomberg.
* U.S. dollars per currency unit.
1) A weighted average of the foreign exchange value of the U.S. dollar against the currencies of a broad group of major U.S. trading partners.
2) A weighted average of the foreign exchange value of the U.S. dollar against a subset of the broad index currencies that circulate widely outside the country of issue.
3) A weighted average of the foreign exchange value of the U.S. dollar against a subset of the broad index currencies that do not circulate widely outside the country of issue.
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The euro is reported in place of the individual eure-area currencies. These currency rates can be derived from the dollar/euro rate by using the fixed conversion rates (in currencies per euro) given below: